I have "conversations" daily with other British immigrants here in France, who don't like me explaining the irony of their negativity towards immigrants heading to the UK. I'm meeting more who have been here for years, without getting residency, who still can't grasp that they are here illegally.

Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.

#StandingStoneSunday The mighty Devil's Chair entrance stone at Avebury henge, Wiltshire. One of a handful of original stones that was never toppled by villagers Coming from west Wales, the enormous scale of this monument & its megaliths is always a shock to the system 🤯 📷 My own, Oct 2023

🚨 BREAKING Great news for the weekend - hero rail worker Samir Zitouni seriously injured saving passengers from a British Knifeman has been released from hospital He’s a Muslim Algerian Migrant.. Reforms Alexander Jones posted on FB "reports suggest that the individuals involved are not English"😬

Someone asked me why I cover Ukraine’s success hitting Russian infrastructure but rarely mention Russian strikes on Ukraine. Russia targets residential areas, hospitals, orphanages, weddings. No strategic value. The aim is to cause terror. Terror is effective when it’s amplified. I’m not helping Rus

I’m sorry, JD Vance’s motorcade ran over a cop and none of y’all told me about it??? what are we DOING on here

Oh my god can you imagine??? Holy shit.

A new spectre looms over democracy: prediction markets on.ft.com/47Yst1f | opinion

www.propublica.org/article/kris... Just one more example of the kind of corruption that has become routine in the Trump administration

This is an excellent listen on her

What is your favourite song about the rain?

🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧 THIS!

It’s high time people stopped apologising to the orange shitgibbon and told him to stick his head where it fits best. #bbc

I'm not complaining about his absence, but strangely Wee Nigel doesn't appear at all in today's newspapers ...

Try reading www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Diary... The rubbish in the streets thing was only for a few weeks in the late 70s by the way, but yes, strikes, IRA, sexual harrassment of women, fear of nuclear war ...

“Most people” who think it was so ace either weren’t alive or were kids back then. I thought powercuts were an adventure! And being sent home from school because it was dangerously cold was exciting. I doubt my parents thought it quite so much fun, though.

George Osborne for BBC Director General, you say ? not so fast perhaps:

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Distracting attention from the Epstein files by singing a selection of the hits of Al Jolson.

Private Eye

From BBC Alumni group: 'Trump’s edited speech: Who actually had the track on the screen and saved the edited file? What was the brief given, and by whom? Why was this the brief? Who signed it off? Where were the lawyers?'

The worst and best thing I have ever done is hold my father’s hand when he passed Physically, I can still feel his faint grip loosen nine years after, but his hand still guides me in everything I do

Brilliant thread for #Caturday

Putin pours another glass.

There are no binary choices to political solutions. It’s not throw open the borders or be Farage. There are workable answers - it just takes hard work, intelligence, compassion, nuance, communication, diligence, effort and political will. Would be nice to see some.

Not saying it’s true, but it would be some absolutely Shakespearean prophecy level shit if Bill Clinton getting a blow job brought down a presidency after all.

Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

The irresistible rise of libertarian eugenics on.ft.com/4i4GLSL | opinion

“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where laws end, there tyranny begins.” The Great Commoner, William Pitt the Elder, born #OTD 1708. Portrait by William Hoare c. 1754, National Portrait Gallery London

FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.

... *Nine-Jobs Nigel* ...

Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day. That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good

Yay, the even worse option of lots of small taxes upsetting noisy lobby groups.

Remember, this is a company that literally started as an AI company and whose original URL was kagi.ai . Their site is *infested* with LLM shit and they're true believers even if now they're trying to pretend otherwise. Be wary.

Russia is going to prohibit the sale of alcohol to its citizens unless they install their mandated government surveillance app on their phones.

Putin preparing to unleash ‘big war’ on Europe in next five years, says Zelensky

It's 1812 here. It's the future.

@lordbonkers.bsky.social @kevinschofied.bsky.social So some pranksters got into Downing Street took each of the journalists, separately, into an office & gave them a fake briefing. As likely as one of my sketches being accepted as a Leonardo.

I'm thinking here of, say, Peter Cook -- a man whose most enduring legacy now is probably his Princess Bride cameo, and who never found the right format for his work to shine in the last thirty years of his life, but who was utterly without a doubt the funniest man in England from about 1960-95.

HOWEVER, I have serious concerns about the speculation, based on polygenic risk score analysis about any pronouncement of psychiatric disorders. This technique is not part of diagnosis, nor can it be.

Just went on Radio 4 to talk about Hitler’s genitals. So glad I trained as a historian for this

seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email

My takeaway from Epstein document dump was that Jeffrey Epstein in 2018/early 2019 was increasingly telling people he had dirt on Trump and Trump knew everything about child sex ring. To protect Trump's re-election campaign, Trump's DOJ charged Epstein in July 2019. Then Epstein committed "suicide."

How much bleach is there in the US? There’s going to be a lot of disinfecting needed.

Enjoyable zoom chat organised by #Alzheimers Society this evening sharing our situations etc. Most popular form of coping was singing ****off to the tune of Aude Lang Syne. And chocolate. And Fizzy Friday

Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy By Dr Russell Jackson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @docrussjackson.bsky.social

You know, I was fine with the moving of the pension age gradually from 60 to 65. I thought that was fair. I wasn't happy though with the way Cameron ramped it up to be much steeper. My friend who is just over 3 months older than me got her pension a full year earlier

I won't hear a word against Streeting - he was a student who was an excellent user of the library I used to run!